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This website has dozens of history and biography articles, listed here alphabetically by first names.

For a list of contents alphabetized by last names see the page “Articles Listed by Author.” “About Us – FAQs” has additional site details.

About Us – FAQs

Abraham Lincoln (Several Articles)

A Few Fine Pop Songs Immersed in History

Albert Schweitzer

Assassination of President Kennedy

Ancient Greece (Excerpt From Edith Hamilton)

Ancient Rome (Excerpt From Edward Gibbon)

Andrew Carnegie

Articles Listed by Author

Ask the Editors (“Was Napoleon Short?” etc.)

Beaver Trading and Trapping in the American West

Bill Wilson (“Bill W.”) A.A. Founder

Booker T. Washington

Book Excerpts From a Range of Prominent History Writers

Britain Ends Its Slave Trade

Carey McWilliams

Charles I and John Cooke

Civil War Battlefields – a Tour of the Western Theater

Clare Boothe Luce

The Cold War (Several Articles)

Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

David M. Johnson Interview (Historian)

Emily Dickinson

The Enneagram Analyzes History

Four Authors of the American Civil War: Excerpts From Catton, Foote, Sandburg, Freeman

Garry Wills (Talk Delivered in 2010 About Nuclear Weapons History)

Gary B. Nash Q-and-A Interview (Historian)

Gerry R. Kohler Q-and-A Interview (Ninth Grade History Teacher)

The Great Influenza of 1918-19

Harry S. Truman

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Influenza of 1918-19

Isaiah Berlin’s Hedgehogs and Foxes

JFK Assassination

JFK Assassination Sidebar (Resources for Research)

John D. Rockefeller

John Rice Irwin Q-and-A Interview (Founder of the Museum of Appalachia)

Journalists for a New Era (Excerpt From Page Smith About Nineteenth Century U.S. Journalism)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Langdon Winner and the Beatles

Leopold II of Belgium and the African Congo

Lesley S. Herrmann Q-and-A Interview (Administrator of a History Nonprofit)

Lincoln Articles

Lincoln vs. Douglas

Lloyd Kramer Q-and-A Interview (Historian)

Mary Lincoln’s Sad Journey

Michael J. Briggs Q-and-A Interview (Academic Press Editor)

Michelle Moran Q-and-A Interview (Historical Novelist)

Mireya Loza Q-and-A Interview (Graduate Student)

Museum of Appalachia (Interview)

Museum of the Fur Trade (Interview)

Nancy Isenberg Q-and-A Interview (Historian)

Nell Irvin Painter Q-and-A Interview (Historian)

Paul Johnson (Journalist and Historian – Comments on His Work From Many Reviewers)

“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Text and Background)

Pershing’s Hunt for Pancho Villa

Philosophical Pragmatists: Holmes, James, etc.

Prelude to the First World War (Excerpt From Barbara Tuchman)

Q-and-A Interviews with History People: Full List

“Reilly: Ace of Spies” – A Review

Robert F. Kennedy

Rocky Collins Q-and-A Interview (Filmmaker)

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

“Silver for General Washington” by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft (Excerpt)

Ten Great Cars From the History of the Indianapolis 500

Ten Misquotations From History

Thomas Keneally Q-and-A Interview (Author of “Schindler’s List”)

Two of America’s Founders: Hamilton and Franklin

“Upstairs, Downstairs”: Three Q-and-A Interviews

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